Head Of Technical

You will be a highly visible employee will be responsible for managing Front-End Development,Software QA, Systems Operations, and a team of Back-End Software Engineers, aswell as contributing to the overall direction and leadership of the company.

Do you thrive on technical challenges? Do you love building and leading exceptional teams? Do youget excited watching the traffic to your web site grow exponentially while youhave the confidence that there are no bottlenecks in the dataflow?

• 10+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience, with proven experience managing high-performingtechnical teams
• Significant Object-Oriented design experience, familiar with Design Patterns
• Knows how the webworks, can easily build a web server and site from scratch
• Comfortablediscussing algorithms and data structures
• Experience scalingplatforms to reach high transaction volume
• Experience leadingdevelopment for QA and IT teams
• Proven experience hiring solid software engineers
• Proven technical leadership experience
• Passion for solving complex technical and business problems
• Worked in an Agile development environment

• Ensure that the company has appropriate Website+Office IT / Systems / Telephony / Support tooperate its business both now and plans for thefuture.
• Ensure that the Software Engineers are writing robust, readable and maintainable code and aremeeting the needs of the Product Team and the business as awhole.
• Ensure that the development and testing environments meet the needs of the Engineers both nowand into the future.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate. You will be taking ownership of the technology strategy for the business, helping us to upgrade, expand and developboth our infrastructure and core web architecture. The role will be varied, fromrecruiting and growing the team to improving our productivity through developing our working practices. We have some big ambitions for the right leader who hasthe experience, knowledge and drive to define the technology direction for our company.

As well as the usualbenefits the role also comes with:

• Private Medical Insurance